{"id":185,"date":"2009-02-12T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-02-12T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:17:29","slug":"when-the-green-gets-thinner-the-thin-blue-line-gets-thinner-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/when-the-green-gets-thinner-the-thin-blue-line-gets-thinner-too\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN THE GREEN GETS THINNER, THE THIN BLUE LINE GETS THINNER, TOO\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Things are tough all over. Municipal, county, and state budgets are facing critical shortfalls that could cause severe limitation of ability to deliver emergency services in a timely fashion.<span> <\/span>A brother officer recently sent me a whimsical photo that says it all: a police K9 car with a Chihuahua in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In Hawthorne, Florida, the police department was disbanded because the community couldn\u2019t afford it anymore.<span> <\/span>Hawthorne will presumably pay the county for sheriff\u2019s deputies to take up the slack. The same has happened with other municipalities in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p>The <em>Washington Post <\/em>reports that \u201cPhiladelphia officials are leaving 200 police positions unfilled and cutting back on overtime\u2026And police in Atlanta are shouldering a 10 percent pay cut after all 1,770 employees and the police chief agreed to a furlough of four hours per week.\u201d<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/Economy\/story?id=6735049&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">This gives a broader view of the problem<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our nation is veering toward an economic depression.<span> <\/span>Poverty breeds crime.<span> <\/span>More crime demands more cops, but there are going to be fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p>Meanwhile, the <em>Orlando Sun-Sentinel <\/em>offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orl-bullets1009feb10,0,2201778.story\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> on the current, acute ammunition shortage due to panic buying. True, a lot of that comes from public fear of pending legislation under the new Administration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>But could that simple formula of more poverty, more crime, and fewer law enforcement officers just have a little bit to do with ordinary American citizens feeling a need to be more prepared for crisis than usual?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are tough all over. Municipal, county, and state budgets are facing critical shortfalls that could cause severe limitation of ability to deliver emergency services in a timely fashion. A brother officer recently sent me a whimsical photo that says it all: a police K9 car with a Chihuahua in the back seat. In Hawthorne, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ammunition","8":"category-firearms","9":"category-preparedness","10":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}